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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Children Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Children

1.
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Lair, Dr. Jess

2.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert

3.
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold

4.
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Cox, Marcelene

5.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Rich, Adrienne

6.
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

7.
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Capp, Al

8.
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
Decter, Midge

9.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Larkin, Philip

10.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jackson, Jesse

11.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.

12.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid

13.
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn

14.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Bergor, Ben

15.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

16.
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

17.
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
Meynell, Alice

19.
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell

20.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Angelou, Maya

21.
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Kennedy, John F.

23.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil

24.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
Jordan, June

26.
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.

27.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz

28.
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Epictetus

29.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund

30.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett

31.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII

32.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen

33.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Swift, Jonathan

34.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Rutherford, Samuel

35.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne

36.
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb

37.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

39.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Jameson, Anna

40.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Auden, W. H.

41.
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry

42.
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary

43.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

44.
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo

45.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Bible

47.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben

48.
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold

49.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson

50.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia


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